Gender Equity in South African Education 1994 – 2004

Conference Proceedings In the sphere of gender equity, much has changed in South Africa since 1994, and much has remained the same. The immediate post-apartheid period saw both the assertion of women as equal partners in all aspects of daily life and, on the one hand, increasing social and familial violence against women and girls as well as, on the other, continuing high levels of unemployment and poverty amongst women.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

148mm x 210mm

Pages:

168

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2094-2

Publish Year:

2005

Rights:

World Rights

List of tables and figures
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations

Overview
Linda Chisholm and Jean September

Keynote address The hidden face of gender inequality in South African education
Naledi Pandor

Part 1 New perspectives and theoretical approaches
1. Gender equity in education: A perspective from development
Ramya Subrahmanian

2. Gender equity in education: The Australian experience
Jane Kenway

3. Between ‘mainstreaming’ and ‘transformation’: Lessons and challenges for institutional change
Catherine Odora-Hoppers

Part 2 Mapping gender inequality
4. Gender equality and education in South Africa: Measurements, scores and strategies
Elaine Unterhalter

5. Mapping a southern African girlhood in the age of AIDS
Claudia Mitchell

Discussant: Chapters 4 and 5
Daisy Makofane

Part 3 Government activism and civil society mobilisation
6. Reflections on the Gender Equity Task Team
AnnMarie Wolpe

7. National Department of Education initiatives
Mmabatho Ramagoshi

Discussant: Chapters 6 and 7
Janine Moolman

8. The state of mobilisation of women teachers in the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union
Shermain Mannah
List of contributors and participants

Edited by Linda Chisholm, a Director in the Child, Youth and Family Development Research Programme at the Human Sciences Research Council and an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Jean September, a Director in the Cape Town office of the British Council.

Contributors include Catherine Odora-Hoppers, Stockholm University (Sweden); Shermain Mannah, South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SA); Elaine Unterhalter, University of London Institute of Education (SA); Jane Kenway, University of Monash (Australia); and Ramya Subrahmanian, University of Sussex, Brighton (UK).